Motivational Quotes

God

God hath entrusted me with myself.

- Epictetus

Best Quotes about God

Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

Seneca

God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so.

Plotinus

When I was young, I said to God,god, tell me the mystery of the universe. But God answered,that knowledge is for me alone. So I said,god, tell me the mystery of the peanut. Then God said,well, George, that's more nearly your size.

Carver, George Washington

'Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.

Updike, John

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

Chuck Palahniuk

We may seek God by our intellect, but we only can find him with our heart.

Cotvos

I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating; but the radical and universal consciousness of the death of God is still ahead of us; perhaps we shall have to colonize the stars before it is finally borne in upon us that God is not out there.

Hollingdale, R. J.

When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in the worlds of time.

The Work of the Chariot

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God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumphs.

Stowell, Joseph

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Man does what he can, God does what he will.

Proverb

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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.

Bataille, Georges

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IÆm searching through all that has ever been hoped, in praise of what can never be known.

Real Live Preacher

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Has it ever struck you that the vast majority of the will of God for your life has already been revealed in the Bible? That is a crucial thing to grasp.

Little, Paul

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Man is a dog's ideal of what God should be.

Mairaux, Andre

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No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

Minor White

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If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

Ziglar, Zig

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Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure and rest in him.

John of the Cross, St.

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Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.

Paul, Jean

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I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

Augustine, St.

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Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.

Sir Julian Huxley

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Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.

Eckhart, Meister

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I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.

William Blake

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A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?

W. Somerset Maugham

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Or perhaps she's just softening me up: she's a Baptist, she'd like me to find Jesus, or vice versa, before it's too late. That kind of thing doesn't run in her family: her mother Reenie never went in much for God. There was mutual respect, and if you were in trouble, naturally you'd call on him, as with lawyers, but as with lawyers, it would have to be bad trouble. Otherwise it didn't pay to get too mixed up with him.

Margaret Atwood

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How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension.

Robert J. Sawyer

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I went to the root of things, and found nothing but Him alone.

Bai, Mira

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God can only do for you what He can do through you.

Butterworth, Eric

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As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are -- more humane.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.

Law, William

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Though God's attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.

Tozer, A. W.

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If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.

Jewish Proverb

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God has been so lavish in his gifts that you can lose some priceless ones, the equivalent of whole kingdoms, and still be indecently rich,

Heed, Wilfrid

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The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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People do not know what the Name of God can do. Those who repeat it constantly alone know its power. It can purify our mind completely... The Name can take us to the summit of spiritual experience.

Ramdas, Swami

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God is more concerned about who you are than what you do, and He is more concerned about what you do than where you do it.

Gulbranson, Gary

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If we really think about it, God exists for any single individual who puts his trust in Him, not for the whole of humanity, with its laws, its organizations, and its violence. Humanity is the demon which God does not succeed in destroying.

Satta, Salvatore

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I like to interpose in all of my appointments, if the Lord wills.

Simpson, A. B.

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The grace of God is a wind which is always blowing.

Ramakrishna, Sri

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The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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And some to Meccah turn to pray, and I toward thy bed, Yasmin.

Flecker, James Elroy

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Others think it's a choice between doing what we want to do and being happy, and doing what God wants us to do and being miserable.

Little, Paul

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Or what about the statue in California currently said to be crying bloody tears? Why worry about the alleged weeping of a plaster effigy when so many actual human beings have reason to cry?

Anna Quindlen

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I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.

Saadi

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We can only know one thing about God -- that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

Weil, Simone

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Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.

Canetti, Elias

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O ye of little faith, who believe that somehow the birth of Christ is dependent upon acknowledgment in a circular from OfficeMax!

Anna Quindlen